LaToya Ruby Frazier, American, born 1982
Flint is Family, 2016
LaToya Ruby Frasier is a multi-media artists who’s bodies of work center on social justice and the American experience to address urgent issues of politics and cultural change. Her collection Flint is Family, follows Shea Cobb and her family through her life in Flint, and provides and intimate look into the lives of those still affected by Flint’s contaminated water. Frasier directly connects and interacts with her subject and those experiencing environmental injustice, making her work particularly impactful as she takes the time to not only represent Flint, but amplify the voices its residents- an essential element of art and environmental justice. Not only does Frasier capture Cobb and those demanding justice, but she moves a step further to make actual change in conjunction with her work, bringing an atmospheric water generator to deliver clean water to the people she photographed, establishing an important connection to the place she used in her art. Label by Molly McCarthy Flood